Efkleidis Kourtidis

Efkleidis Kourtidis (Greek: Ευκλείδης Κουρτίδης, 1885–1937) was a Greek revolutionary leader of Pontos.

Kourtidis was the head of Greek guerrilla forces based in the town of Santa (Dumanlı), Pontus that resisted Turkish bands. During the Pontic Greek Genocide (1912–1922) he rescued a large number of women and children from the advancing armies of Kemal. They were finally transported safely to Greece.

His statue is erected in Nea Santa, Kilkis, Greece.

References

Pontian History, page 7.
evxinospontos.
La Memoire des "Patries inoubliables", page 47.

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